The Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday celebrated the 100th anniversary of Patrice Lumumba’s birth. An official ...

KINSHASA, Congo — Belgium’s King Philippe expressed his “deepest regrets” for his nation’s abuses in its former colony Congo, telling lawmakers Wednesday on his first official trip to ...

Patrice Lumumba had his body dissolved in acid in 1961, and his gold-capped tooth - his only remains - was kept in Belgium ...

The Congolese independence leader’s uncompromising speech about 80 years of European colonial brutality and injustice went ...

Rwanda’s Consul in Antwerp, Gunther Vanpraet, has blamed the Belgian government’s one-sided diplomatic position on the DR Congo security crisis, calling it both “disrespectful” to Rwanda ...

Congo-Kinshasa: Belgium Staggers Toward Decolonization D. De Lorenzo/Deutsche Welle Despite widespread protests like this one in June 2020, Belgium has been slow to address its colonial past.

Kinshasa — Belgian Foreign Minister Andre Flahaut ended a three-day working visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Sunday with a promise to continue military cooperation with Kinshasa ...

The remains of Congo’s independence hero and first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba will be laid to rest in Kinshasa Thursday.. The interment in a specially-built mausoleum will be marked by a ...

Congolese police have arrested six people over a break-in and vandalism earlier this week at the mausoleum of the country’s assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in Congo’s capital ...

BioDev-II visa pilot project: first operational installation at Belgian embassy in Kinshasa. Kinshasa/Brussels — BioDev-II is an experiment of seven EU Member States from the Schengen area, plus the ...

KINSHASA, April 29 (Reuters) - Belgium is open to deeper involvement in Democratic Republic of Congo's minerals sector, its foreign minister said on a visit to the former Belgian colony, ...